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~ About: A 1961-65 Park College Diary ~ As a high school girl and then a college coed in the first half of the 1960s, I wrote nightly entries on the pages of one-year diaries. In January 2010 I began transcribing the entries into a blog and gave each one a title. I grew up on three farms within 30 miles of Iowa City and the University of Iowa with its Iowa Writers' Workshop. As the oldest of four daughters, in my diaries I sometimes referred to my sisters as "the kids" or "the girls." We helped our parents, but we also had good, wholesome fun - a characteristic I took with me to Park. Park is 300 miles southwest of West Chester, Iowa, in Parkville, Missouri, on the Missouri River 10 miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri, and across the river from Kansas City, Kansas. In 2000 Park College became Park University. Today Park's flagship campus is in Parkville and there are an additional 41 campus centers across the nation. Park was one of the first educational institutions in the United States to offer online learning. My last post was on May 22, 2018. I may be followed on Twitter @BarbaraMcDWhitt.

Met to Get Library Weekend Hours - Monday, October 15, 1962

I'll write now so I can jump into bed when I get back from practicing modern dance at Herr House after hours. I read sociology in the library tonight. We had a little rain. The wind felt good coming in the windows till we had to make a mad move to shut them when the rain started blowing in. Judy Paxton and I went to the library meeting at 4:15. Maybe we'll get our library open on weekends. I didn't have real good luck with my news today - but I've got a good lead from Dr. Pivonka for a couple of weeks from now. I got a C+ on today's history quiz. I want to raise my grade point average.

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